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Codex- Something to look out for you

I've created a new project

I’m building solo, and like most of you, I wear every hat — product, marketing, ops... and then there’s legal.

Honestly? Legal used to scare the hell out of me.
I wasn’t trying to do anything shady — I just didn’t want to mess up something simple and have it cost me everything.

So I built Codex — a kind of AI legal co-founder that actually looks out for me while I build.

What Codex Does
Codex is more than a chatbot. It listens like a lawyer. Think:

I say: “I marked my employees as investments for tax reasons.”

Codex says: “Hold up. That’s a huge red flag. Here’s why — and here’s how to fix it.”

Other stuff it helps with:

Drafts contracts, NDAs, and disclaimers on the fly

Warns you if you’re about to make a risky business move

Understands your industry and updates its advice as you build

Detects legal risks even if you didn’t ask about them

🛠️ Why I'm Building This
I kept seeing the same pattern:
People build great products, get some traction — then lose it all to a legal blind spot.

So instead of hiring a lawyer I couldn’t afford, I trained an LLM on over 1,000 real business scenarios — from edge-case tax write-offs to startup defamation issues to local compliance quirks. Even threw in case law and city-level rules.

Now I’ve got an AI that has my back — and I want to make it available to other solo builders too.

🔍 What I Need
If you're:

Running solo or bootstrapped

Tired of Googling “Do I need a contract for this?”

Worried you’re missing something legal that could bite you later...

I'd love your feedback.

🧪 Want to test it early? Drop a comment or DM me.
I’m shipping fast and trying to make Codex the kind of legal safety net every indie founder deserves.

Cheers,
Jonah Holmes
Founder, Codex

on April 15, 2025